Posted by Su on September 08, 1998 at 06:25:58:

In Reply to: The Science and Art of Knowledge Management posted by Yogesh Malhotra,Ph.D. on August 12, 1998 at 12:58:23:

For me this thread of investigation is at the core of many nodes of paradox that we are playing with in KM/KE...

In the context of whitewater again...compare the science behind building the best gear, with the mindset of playing in the whitewater at ever deeper levels. Pure skill ceases to be enough and intuition, fast learning, adaptability, improvisation and creativity are core.

The appliance of science (building better tools) to the art of playing in the river...

There is a saying:

The method of science, the aim of religion...

This for me captures the essence of this debate...

Our aims are deep, in terms of our thinking on ethics, wholeness, what basically must be right for ourselves, our businesses, our societies, ultimately the planet...(this in terms of knowledge ecology). How various types of complex adaptive systems interact and react and emerge, as a part of a larger system itself evolving...

This is the art....

The science is in the approach...rigour, the ability to replicate an experiment, bringing in the discplines of science...

Interestingly...when you take any science far enough it becomes an art. Take pure mathematics/physics/chaos theory as an example...

If you look at the extreme end of these disciplines, there is much philosophy and art AND overlap between the different sciences.

So I believe it is with KM...at the emergent end, we combine philosophy, psychology, CAS theory, sociology, epistemology, ecology, statistics, macro-economics, and a host of other fields...weaving these all together.

That is part of what makes it so exciting...

Su

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• Re: The Science and Art of Knowledge Management Robert Benjamin 12:24:18 9/10/98 (8)
  • Re: The Science and Art of Knowledge Management Su (Susanne Williams) 09:21:50 9/11/98 (7)
    • Re: The Science and Art of Knowledge Management Robert Benjamin 10:25:17 9/11/98 (6)
      • Good business is science. Exceptional business is an art. John Bardos 15:46:12 9/11/98 (5)
        • Re: Good business is science. Exceptional business is an art. sumana 01:26:51 10/15/98 (2)
          • Re: Good business is science. Exceptional business is an art. Robert Benjamin 15:09:15 10/18/98 (1)
            • Re: Good business is science. Exceptional business is an art. sumana 00:06:52 10/22/98 (0)
        • Re: Martyn R Jones 07:16:39 9/22/98 (0)
        • Re: Good business is science. Exceptional business is an art. Robert Benjamin 15:17:56 9/12/98 (0)
• Re: The Science and Art of Knowledge Management Martyn R Jones 15:04:25 9/08/98 (2)
  • Re: The Science and Art of Knowledge Management Robert Benjamin 01:59:07 9/13/98 (1)
    • Re: The Science and Art of Knowledge Management Su 10:31:23 9/14/98 (0)

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